Our Project: To highlight how Library and Information Science Education is working with practioners to provide graduate students with practical experience.

Our expected outcomes:

1) A successful Education Forum to take place at the 2008 ALA Annual Conference, featuring the work of master's students in LIS programs.
This Emerging Leader group will work with Joe Sanchez to assist in the planning of the Education Forum, featuring the work of masters students, in Anaheim.

Note: As of 1/12/08, this group has decided to work to create a web resource for searching Practicum experiences. This resource will include links to resources regarding practicums, student's "stories" about their practicums, the responding LIS school's contact information, and possibly more.

Group members and their roles:

April Bocchino: Monitor the work of the team to make sure that each member contributes and completes assignments
Molly Krichten: Write up team's findings
Sarah Stohr: Update the wiki/blog with team progress each month
Stefanie Warlick: Keep in touch with the mentor and the ALA contact person
Valerie Wonder: Lead the poster project

Dr. Loriene Roy: Sponsor
Joe Sanchez: Mentor

Final Report:

Sources of information on Capstone/Fieldwork/Practicum opportunities:

From New Graduate to Competent Practitioner: Rethinking the
Architecture of Post-MLS Residency Programs in ARL Libraries.[1] Megan Z. Perez. April, 2007.
This is a Masters Paper written by a UNC Chapel Hill M.S. student. He focuses on post-MLS residency programs, this may be a bit out of our scope. However, we may be interested in including some/all of the programs he identifies in our searchable database. (Stefanie)